More in spanish
pronunciation: mɑs part of speech: adverb
more ... than ... = más ... que ....
Example: Indicative-informative abstracts are more common than either the purely indicative or the purely informative abstract.more = más.
Example: The command function 'MORE' is used to request the system to display more information, for instance to continue the alphabetical display of terms.more:
» after all is said and done, more is said than done = después de todo lo dicho y hecho, es más lo dicho que lo hecho.
Example: Many Americans seem to be living out the old cliché 'after all is said and done, more is said than done'.» a great deal more needs to be done = quedar muchísimo por hacer.
Example: A great deal more needs to be done to raise the awareness of UK library professionals in this area.» a great many more = muchos más.
Example: For most who moonlight, the extra income is an economic necessity, and for a great many more, the economic need to work a second job exists but the employment opportunity does not.» all the more + Adjetivo = mucho más + Adjetivo, todavía más + Adjetivo.
Example: This becomes all the more significant as computers begin to affect virtually every other area of endeavor.» all the more = aun más, cuanto más.
Example: He listened with rapture, and all the more because it was a poignant moment in his life.» all the more so = cuanto más, más todavía.
Example: Authors gain exposure in their domain -- isn't it why one publishes? -- all the more so if it is through peer reviewing and what we hope will be a high quality conference.» a lot more = mucho más.
Example: He likes the second edition a lot more.» among many more = entre muchos más.
Example: Fruit trees include orange trees, lemon trees, lime trees, avocado trees, apple trees, peach trees, among many more.» among much more = entre mucho más.
Example: It teaches what we often neglect in today's hectic, competitive world: self-love, balance, and mindfulness, among much more.» an awful lot more = muchísimo más.
Example: Becker shows how going on to higher education exposes students to an awful lot more than learning physics or English literature.» and little more = y poco más.
Example: Viewed from the vantage of the student, the typical instructor uses a course management system as a publicly accessible file drawer and little more, posting lecture notes and the syllabus.» and many more = y muchas cosas más, y muchos más, y muchos otros.
Example: Mosaic tiles are widely used in swimming pools, fountains, lakes, water parks and many more.» and more = y mucho(s) más.
Example: This is a bibliography of titles on repairing the most common home appliances including refrigerators, dishwashers, ovens, air conditioners, telephones and more.» and much more = y mucho más.
Example: Displays and exhibits include folk art and portraiture, fireams and militia accouterments, blacksmith shop, shoe repair shop, cooperage, gardens of culinary and medicinal herbs, and much more.» and so much more = y mucho más, y muchísimo más, y muchas otras cosas más.
Example: Today was hard, today I missed it by a mile -- I was impatient, indignant, proud, unloving, abrupt, lazy, resentful, jealous and so much more.» a picture is worth more than ten thousand words = una imagen vale más que mil palabras.
Example: The true meaning of the cliche 'a picture is worth more than ten thousand words,' is never more evident than when students first see themselves on camera after simulating reference interviews in the classroom.» a whole lot more = muchísimo más.
Example: The article is entitled 'Information America: access to public records and a whole lot more'.» be all the more = ser mucho más, ser aun más.
Example: Stories that lead to doing things are all the more attractive to children, who are active rather than passive creatures.» be far more than = ser mucho más que.
Example: The number of easy chairs frequently seems to be far more than is necessary.» be hungry for more = querer más, desear más, pedir más.
Example: We have the team who are hungry for more success.» be little more than an interesting exercise = no servir de mucho.
Example: In addition, any control system that does not pose corrective actions after deviations occur is little more than an interesting exercise.» be more Catholic/papist than the Pope (himself/of Rome) = ser más papista que el Papa.
Example: She will take an ultra hard line position on everything because she will feel that to be accepted in her new circle she will be have to be more Catholic than the Pope.» be more of an art = requerir más destreza.
Example: In less well structured schemes, the application of chain indexing is more of an art.» be more of a + Nombre = ser más un + Nombre.
Example: The author aims to present Delphi as a practical method and to dispel the idea that Delphi is more of a guessing game.» be more royalist than the king = ser más papista que el Papa.
Example: In other cases, these groups unhesitatingly side with the United States and, in effect, become more royalist than the king.» be more than happy to + Infinitivo = estar encantado de Hacer Algo.
Example: 'I'll be more than happy to help in any way that I can,' Suttie offered.» be more than ready for = anhelar, estar deseoso de.
Example: By the time the first Italian parliament was formed in 1861, Italy was more than ready for political union.» be more than welcome to = invitar encantado a, invitar con mucho gusto a, ser más que bienvenido a.
Example: You, however, are more than welcome to head for Kasab to immediately engage the enemy and 'cut a fat hog'.» be more than willing to = estar dispuestísimo a.
Example: However, those who have tasted the succulent meat of this type of clam are more than willing to dig up to their armpits in the intertidal muck to capture such delicious quarry.» be no more = dejar de existir.
Example: Soon, if, as it is planned, freight charges are introduced for book cartons consigned within the State, this library service will be no more = Pronto dejará de existir este servicio bibliotecario si, como está planeado, se introducen gastos de transporte por las cajas de cartón con libros que se consignen dentro del estado.» be nothing more than = no ser más que.
Example: Women will like it because it shows how men are nothing more than putty in their hands.» be thirsty for more = querer más, desear más, pedir más.
Example: The rise of fitness and health blogs is evidence that we are thirsty for more information on how to be healthy.» bite off more than + Pronombre + can chew = tratar de abarcar más de lo que se puede, quien mucho abarca poco aprieta, meterse en camisa de once varas, tratar de abarcar más de la cuenta.
Example: We should do our part, but we shouldn't bite off more than we can chew.» do + little more than = no poder hacer más que.
Example: This brief section can do little more than focus attention on the importance of library guiding.» do + more harm than good = hacer más mal que bien, hacer un flaco favor.
Example: Antidepressant drugs do more harm than good, and even cause the deaths of elderly patients, say researchers.» do + more than justice = tratar magníficamente.
Example: Overall, he provides a low-keyed, lucid account that, with its many-leveled approach, does more than justice to the complex themes it studies.» do + more than + Posesivo + fair share = hacer más de lo que a Uno le corresponde.
Example: Women are doing more than their fair share of recycling, while single people living alone are less likely to recycle.» do + no more than = no hacer sino, no hacer más que.
Example: So, by making special provision for the disadvantaged, the library is doing no more than recognizing that there is a group that has special information needs.» even more = aun más, más aun.
Example: The mass shooting at the Sikh temple seems even more horrifying than most.» ever more = cada vez más.
Example: As costs continue to rise and funds remain limited, the importance of spending each acquisitions dollar wisely becomes ever more apparent.» far more + Adverbio/Adjetivo = mucho más + Adverbio/Adjetivo.
Example: However, online interaction beginning with only 225 entries makes it possible for a user to locate the entry far more rapidly than would be possible in a card catalog.» far more than that = mucho más que eso.
Example: But, far more than that, we must always remember that you are officers of the law in a great democratic nation which owes its birth to the indignation of its citizen.» get + more for + Posesivo + money = aprovechar mejor el dinero, sacar más partido, sacar mejor partido.
Example: The article 'Cutting costs: pruning the tree, logging the forest' presents general strategies that reduce search expenses or enables users to get more for their money.» get + more from/out of = sacar más partido a, sacar más provecho de, aprovechar mejor, sacar más jugo de.
Example: Getting more out of life is a matter of choosing to live to the fullest and being smart about how you spend your time.» get + more juice from/out of = sacar más jugo de, sacar más partido a, sacar más provecho de, aprovechar mejor.
Example: But there may be other ways to strategically use social media to get more juice out of your marketing campaign.» give it + more thought = seguir pensando, seguir pensándoselo.
Example: 'I'll give it more thought,' she said with a sharp frown, resuming her former posture.» have + more money than sense = tener más dinero que sentido común.
Example: Well, here are 15 things you can blow your money on that only someone who has more money than sense can truly appreciate.» have more + Nombre + than + Pronombre + know + what to do with = tener tanto + Nombre + que no + saber + lo que hacer con + Nombre.
Example: With two languages and more budding actors than it knows what to do with, Montreal is an epicenter for the performing arts.» have + more than one string to + Posesivo + bow = tener más de una habilidad, tener más de una destreza.
Example: Proving that she has more than one string to her bow, Fiona plays guitar, piano, violin, double bass, accordion and harp.» in a more serious vein = más en serio, bromas aparte.
Example: In a more serious vein, I think it's time for all us to talk turkey about this country's immediate future.» in any more than = no más que.
Example: The librarian, however brilliant or hard- working, cannot judge for himself in any more than a few limited fields of literary production.» in more detail = con mayor profundidad, con más detalle.
Example: Before we look at how libraries in Great Britain have responded to community information, first it is important to set the scene by examining in more detail some of these other information and advice services.» in more recent times = en tiempos más recientes, más recientemente.
Example: Incomplete and anachronistic readings of the records from the 1612 trial for her rape have underpinned an image of Artemisia as, in the older treatments, a flirt and vamp or, in more recent ones, a feminist and resister of male violence.» in more than one instance = en más de una ocasión.
Example: They not only liked her, opened up to her, and flirted with her but, in more than one instance, fell in love and/or had affairs with her.» in more than one occasion = en más de una ocasión.
Example: In more than one occasion he exposed himself to enemy fire and grenades by covering the bodies of those whom he was aiding with his own.» in more ways than one = de muchas formas, de muchas maneras, en muchos sentidos, en más de un sentido.
Example: As the title of my talk indicates, we are on thin ice, and in more ways than one.» less of the carrot, more of the stick = menos blandeces y más mano dura.
Example: The article is entitled 'Information provision: less of the carrot, more of the stick'.» lots more = mucho más.
Example: What can we do is rethink our query, or we can bash on regardless' using the power of the computer to perform lots more searches in the hope that 'something will turn up'.» more and more = cada vez más.
Example: The tell-tale sign that an institution is no longer serving its initial function is that its energies are more and more consumed by is efforts to preserve and maintain its structure.» more disturbingly = lo que es aun más preocupante, lo que es aun más inquietante, lo que es todavía más preocupante, lo que es todavía más inquietante, lo que es aun más alarmante, lo que es todavía más alarmante.
Example: I looked down and saw a tiny but perfect mummified human body with hair, dark brown skin and more disturbingly, wings.» more haste, less speed = vísteme despacio que tengo prisa.
Example: Learning violin is best taken at a steady pace -- 'more haste, less speed' is very true as you learn play violin.» more important = es más.
Example: Objectives are tools; more important, they are tools that can relate closely to changing environments.» more importantly = lo que es más importante.
Example: Therefore, as a logical corollary, the catalog is itself a surrogate of the collection, more importantly, as a result of the added entry structure, several simultaneous surrogates.» more is not always better = más no es siempre mejor.
Example: And remember the old adage, in health care as in many other things: more is not always better.» more nearly = más cerca de, más exactamente.
Example: But we are not then acting quite so much out of blindness or inarticulateness; we are selfishly or fearfully or wilfully trying to short-circuit what we know underneath to be more nearly the true state of things.» more needs to be done = quedar mucho por hacer.
Example: More needs to be done in abstracting journals and in involving archivists in international studies.» more of = algo más de.
Example: Close attention to the role of the computer specialist reveals more of the character of reference activities.» more often than not = con mucha frecuencia, muy a menudo, la mayoría de las veces, la mayor parte de las veces, la mayoría de los casos, la mayoría de las ocasiones.
Example: Access to remote services is more often than not by means of dedicated terminal connections.» more of the same = más de lo mismo.
Example: This chapter also presents 3 scenarios describing more of the same, how things might get worse, and how things might get better.» more or less = más o menos, aproximadamente.
Example: DOBIS/LIBIS stores library files that contain more or less the same information found in manual files in libraries everywhere.» more recently = más recientemente.
Example: More recently, we have seen the development of such subjects as molecular biology, which involves the merging, or 'fusion', of disciplines such as physics and biology which had previously been thought of as totally distinct = Más recientemente, hemos visto el desarrollo de materias como la biología molecular, que consiste en la fusión de disciplinas como la física y la biología que previamente se concebían como totalmente diferentes.» more significantly = más importante aun.
Example: More significantly, no library journals provide regular feautes on the wealth of montly comic book titles and mini-series = Más importante aún es el hecho de que ninguna revista de biblioteconomía incluye de un modo regular reseñas sobre la gran cantidad de comics y miniseries que se publican mensualmente.» more ... than ... = más ... que ....
Example: Indicative-informative abstracts are more common than either the purely indicative or the purely informative abstract.» more than all of us put together = más que todos nosotros juntos.
Example: In fact, he boasts that he knows more about library work than all of us who have our master's degrees put together.» more than anything else = más que nada, ante todo.
Example: But more than anything else, I'd like to thank him for humbling me, for talking to me and showing me the world through a different lens.» more than + Cantidad = más de + Cantidad.
Example: One 5 1/4' disk can thus hold more than a million characters (one megabyte).» more than ever = más que antes, más que nunca, más que nunca antes.
Example: In the Year of the Young Reader, booksellers and librarians should form a lobby through which they can become a stronger, more unified force than ever.» more ... than ever before = más ... que nunca antes, más ... que antes.
Example: Today the environment is changing more quickly than ever before, driven by technological change.» more than ever before = más que antes, más que nunca, más que nunca antes.
Example: The unavoidable conclusion of all this is that more than ever before young people are seeking to escape from the academic environment and move out into the world as soon as possible.» more than meets the eye = más complejo de lo que parece, más complicado de lo que parece.
Example: A librarian who suspected that there was more to this than met the eye might find that the problem at the heart of the matter could be a wish to know something of the story of the play without having to read it.» more than most + Nombre = más de la mayoría de los + Nombre.
Example: But librarianship is a multi-disciplinary study, and reference work, though squarely based on systematic bibliography, owes more than most aspects of librarianship to other disciplines.» more than once = más de una vez.
Example: I knew all the ways to control lunatics, but she was strong in her ravings and knocked me cold more than once.» more than one ISBN = más de un ISBN.
Example: When a publication is issued in more than one form or by more than one publisher and has more than one ISBN, each ISBN is recorded.» more to the point = más concretamente.
Example: But more to the point, the claim that 2 1/2 million jobs depend on slashing red tape is a misrepresentation of a CBI survey carried out in advance of the UK general election of 1983.» more troublingly = lo que es aun más preocupante, lo que es aun más inquietante, lo que es todavía más preocupante, lo que es todavía más inquietante, lo que es aun más alarmante, lo que es todavía más alarmante.
Example: More troublingly, non-native snakes like the Burmese python could slither their way north from the warm, humid conditions of South Florida.» much more = mucho más.
Example: Although this is inevitably a generalization, it is normally the case that profiles for retrospective searching specify a much more restricted subject area.» much more needs to be done = quedar mucho más por hacer.
Example: Despite the great progress much more needs to be done.» much more so = mucho más.
Example: This is a problem for most librarians worldwide, but much more so for Australian librarians.» no more, no less = ni más ni menos.
Example: The motto of the paper was, 'A square deal and a fair chance -- no more, no less'.» no more than = simplemente.
Example: A clump may be no more than a list of databases that share some common features like regional location, content type, subject matter, etc = Un grupo de recursos pueder ser simplemente una lista de bases de datos que comparten algunas características como la ubicación geográfica, el tipo de contenido, la materia, etc.» not any more = ya no, ahora no.
Example: I used to cry like a baby when I sliced onions -- not any more.» not going to take it any more = no voy a aguantarlo más.
Example: The article 'The acquisitions librarian as informed consumer: mad as hell, and not going to take it any more!' considers some of the underlying practices used by publishers which keep prices increasing faster than inflation.» nothing more, nothing less = ni más ni menos.
Example: The appropriate perspetive to take is to view a decision and its aftermath as data for the next decision to be make -- nothing more, nothing less.» now more than ever = ahora más que nunca.
Example: A phenomenon as old as humanity, megalomania has become, now more than ever, an attitude reflective of our contemporary culture.» once more = otra vez, de nuevo.
Example: Read section 10 once more and reconsider the question.» on more than one occasion = en más de una ocasión, más de una vez.
Example: She enjoyed pointing out on more than one occasion that he had demonstrated an IQ of 145, thus placing him intellectually far ahead of his co-students.» pay + more attention to = prestar más atención a, hacer más caso (a/de), estar más pendiente de, dedicar más atención a.
Example: Do you feel your boyfriend is paying more attention to his friends than to you?.» rather more = bastante más.
Example: AACR2 also incorporates rather more options in terms of alternative rules than AACR1.» squeeze + more life out of = sacar mayor partido a, aprovechar mejor.
Example: The article is entitled 'Squeezing more life out of bitonal files: a study of black and white'.» the more the better = cuantos más, mejor; mientras más, mejor.
Example: Canzone seems to be less afraid when there are other greyhounds around him, the more the better.» the more the merrier = cuantos más, mejor; mientras más, mejor.
Example: The film 'The More the Merrier' features some of her finest work.» there + be + more to it than that = haber todavía más, no quedarse ahí.
Example: There's more to it than that - he becomes vicious, cutting people up behind their backs if they cross him in any way.» there is/was more to it than meets/met the eye = las cosas no son tan simples como parecen, las cosas son más complicadas de lo que parecen, aquí hay gato encerrado, las apariencias engañan.
Example: So don't be too hasty to write it off -- there's more to it than meets the eye.» there is/was more to the picture than meets/met the eye = las cosas no son tan simples como parecen, las cosas son más complicadas de lo que parecen, aquí hay gato encerrado, las apariencias engañan.
Example: Despite this common sense observation, most economists have failed to see that 'there's more to the picture than meets the eye', as Neil Young once sang.» there's more than one way to skin a cat = cada maestrillo tiene su librillo.
Example: There may be more than one way to skin a cat but there is only one way that is the most efficient.» what is more = lo que es más. [También abreviado a what's more]
Example: What is more, we all of us -- children and adults -- try to make other people into the kind of reader we are ourselves.» with no more ado than + Nombre = con sólo + Infinitivo.
Example: Machine-made paper, provided that it was dry, could be laid on with sufficient accuracy for register to be made with no more ado than adjustment of the forme for the second run.» without (any) more ado = sin más preámbulos, sin más dilación.
Example: If this man is right we will have no alternative than to pay him without more ado.mores = costumbres, costumbres y convenciones, buenas costumbres.
Example: These reasons speak to the duties and enduring mores of the professoriate.more:
» sexual mores = prácticas sexuales.
Example: He believes that the painting visualizes the changing sexual mores of the 1930s and 1940s (the sexual revolution).